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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1998, 4:36 PM EST for Pike County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1998, 4:36 PM EST (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1998, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 943 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 072135 FFWPAH INC125-080030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 436 PM CDT (436 PM EST) TUE JUL 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA * UNTIL 730 PM EST (730 PM CDT) * AT AT 430 PM EST STORM SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR REPORTED FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN. RADAR SHOWED THE STORMS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH THROUGH PIKE COUNTY. * STORM SPOTTERS REPORT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF WATER OVER SOME ROADS IN THE CAMPBELLTOWN AND WINSLOW AREAS. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...SHOULD FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE. NEVER ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY IN FLOOD WATERS OR NEAR STORM DRAINS! & SDB
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 7, 1:15 PM EST, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 1:15 PM EST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 115 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1998 BROAD UPPER RIDGE REMAINS FIRM OVER SRN U.S. THRU FCST PERIOD AS SHORT WAVE DROPS OUT OF PLAINS ANC ACROSS GREAT LAKES TODAY/TONIGHT. A LOBE OF VORTICITY EXTENDING SOUTH OUT OF THIS WAVE WILL LIFT ACROSS PAH FA LATER TODAY...POSSIBLY AIDING ANY HEAT OF DAY TSMS THAT DEVELOP. OTHERWISE MAIN ENERGY WITH THIS WAVE WILL STAY NORTH OF FA THROUGH TONIGHT. HOWEVER...BEST MRH IS TIED IN ALONG AND AHEAD OF QUASI-STNRY BOUNDARY WHICH AT 17Z WAS ANALYZED FM LWR GREAT LAKES SW THRU CNTL MO TO OK. A COUPLE OF SFC WAVES WERE ANALYZED ALONG THE BOUNDARY AND WL LIKELY CONT THEIR NE PROPAGATION AS THE BOUNDARY SAGS SLIGHTLY S AND E THRU TIME. MODELS KEEP HIGH RH OVER PAH FA THROUGH ABOUT 06Z WITH MODEL QPF YIELDING 1/2 TO 1 INCH AMOUNTS ON AVERAGE...WITH ISOLD 1-2 INCHES POSSIBLE AS AREA SOUNDINGS REVEAL AROUND 2 INCH PWS THRU 12Z WED. AS A RESULT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS TO BE MAIN THREAT PAH FA NEXT 24 HOURS...THOUGH FAR NRN PTNS MAY YEILD SLGT RISK SVR DUE TO PROXIMITY TO MAIN WAVE/DYNAMICS (SEE 94O). WARM SOUPY AIR MEANS LOWS PROBABLY IN M-U70S AGAIN TONIGHT...WITH CHC POPS RECOMMENDED. MODELS SUGGEST DRIER (RELATIVE) AIR SAGS SOUTH INTO FA ON WEDNESDAY AS BEST MRH PUSHES EAST. HOWEVER...SFC TDS DONT RESPOND...AND WITH HEAT OF DAY INSTABILITY AND LIKELY STILL LINGERING FRONTAL OR OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AROUND...CONTINUING CHC POP THROUGH TOMORROW SEEMS PRUDENT. WHILE IT WL REMAIN WARM AND HUMID...APPEARS CONVECTION MAY YIELD SCT PCPN OR AT LEAST ENOUGH DEBRIS CLOUDS THROUGH TOMORROW TO TAP TEMPS BLO HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA. DH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 3:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pike | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 4:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pike, Warrick | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 4:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pike, Warrick | 63 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.